AN INGENIOUS PUZZLE.
A barrister contributes to the London Times an ingenious and apparently insoluble puzzle, which may be summarised thus:—A says to B, I will teach you to be a barrister, half fee now, and the other half when you win your first case. B paid, was taught, and called to the Bar, but failed to do anything at all for two years. A then said to himself: If I sue him for the instalment of my fee, and win the case, he will have to pay me; if I lose, then he has won his first case, and will therefore have to pay me. That seems unanswerable until we get B’s view: If A wins, then I have lost my first case, and need not pay him; and if he loses, then, by the judgment of the court, I need not pay -him. So that is that; and there is rio evident solution. M
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Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 328, 6 March 1930, Page 1
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156AN INGENIOUS PUZZLE. Putaruru Press, Volume VIII, Issue 328, 6 March 1930, Page 1
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